Functional importance vs keystoneness: Reformulating some questions in theoretical biocenology

Austral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 369-382

  Hurlbert, Stuart H ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Community importance; General functional importance; Interaction strength; Keystone species; Lognormal distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444423729     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1997.tb00687.x     Document Type: Article

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